Talk:Human-based computation

Accuracy
"Human computation" redirects to this article, but this article covers almost none of the work that is generally agreed to be in this area. See for example the book Human Computation by Edith Law and Luis von Ahn, which came out in 2011 by Morgan and Claypool Publishers and provides a comprehensive overview of the topic, or the proceedings of the last 4 Human Computation Workshops. Almost nothing from this article is found in those venues, and very little from those publications are present here. I suggest creating a separate article for Human Computation -- it is a well-established research area that is not reflected here.

(I also note that one of the editors of this article is also included in citations in this article, further bringing into question the objectivity of the coverage of this topic.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.193.6.52 (talk) 08:41, 4 December 2012 (UTC)


 * The separate article describing human computation (HC) in its generally accepted meaning exists, see human computer. As you can see, the common meaning of HC is different from the one you advocate. In fact, the book you suggested uses HC as a shortcut label for HBC and essentially justifies the existing redirect. I think, this usage is questionable as HC doesn't capture non-algorithmic tasks humans commonly do in HBC. Unfortunately, the erroneous usage became widespread mainly due to the authors of the book you mentioned. Alex Kosorukoff (talk) 08:58, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Seems pretty clear from your responses that you are overinvested in this article. This is not a one man operation, everybody gets to contribute. The whole idea sounds crazy to me, both humans and computers doing the very things they are worst at.--ෆාට් බුබුල (talk) 06:04, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Outsourcing vs. Delegating
Outsourcing is a business process. See wiki: Delegating. 24.251.197.52 (talk) 01:14, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

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